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Meteorologist - 1.2.6

Weather access from the menu bar or Dock

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 1.2.6:	(4.2)
Selected Version:	1.2.6
Release Date:	2003-03-24
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.2.6):	838
Downloads (all versions):	207,276

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Product Description:

Meteorologist is the only full featured free weather program for Mac OS X (that I've seen). It was inspired by a couple week problem with another weather program, and I had the crazy idea that I would write a simple program to take its place. Several months later, Meteorologist has matured into a very strong program, representing not only my efforts, but also the helpful and insightful comments of those who use this program. Meteorologist now supports multiple cities, multiple servers, new version and server error checking, and many more features.

What's new in this version:

"Kill other Meteo" is now an option in the preferences
Temperature data from wunderground and NWS will be mapped as so:
low 10's => 12
mid/middle 10's => 15
upper 10's => 18
Radio buttons for weather alerts are now check boxes
Radio buttons for cycling cities are now check boxes
Removed html garbage and ads that were showing up in extending forecast
Added exception handlers to hopefully prevent MMS (missing menu symptom)
If icons can't be downloaded to /Library/Application Support (requires admin privileges), they will be downloaded to ~/Library/Application Support instead
Changed naming of record and normal hi's and low's
Closing Alerts window now stops music/beeping
Added threading support (experimental)
Improved interlacing of weather data (hopefully fixes problem where Friday Night was before Friday, etc)
Mapped most NWS icons correctly
Pressure shouldn't be reported as a wind attribute anymore
NWS will now relay current forecast info again
Because NWS and Wunderground don't provide a current weather image, Meteo looks at the first forecast image for those servers, explaining why some users get a moon image during the day; I'll look into a better way for the future
Meteo 1.2.6 and later requires 10.2. Please use 1.2.4 for OS X 10.1.5 and before
I apologize for how buggy 1.2.5 was and that I haven't been able to respond to everyone's emails. This version should be much more stable and reliable.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.2.6:
Overall Rating:	(4.2)	Features:	Not rated (0.0)	Support:	Not rated (0.0)
Ease of Use:	Not rated (0.0)	Quality / Stability:	Not rated (0.0)	Price:	Not rated (0.0)

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Very good with one serious annoyance - Version: 1.4.8, 4/23/2009 11:21AM PST

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ziggy29

I love this little menu bar addition -- but it has one significant, annoying flaw.

It seems that the attempt to refresh the weather occasionally hangs -- usually once a day or more on me -- and you have to quit out of the application and restart it. This can happen if you intermittently lose the connection or if the Mac goes to sleep while it's in the middle of a refresh.

It would be much better if it "timed out" of the refresh and tried again a little later.

That is what lowers this from 5 stars to 4. Fix it (assuming it's still being maintained) and it's 5 stars.

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Very good with one serious annoyance

Where in an UPDATE? - Version: 1.4.8, 5/6/2008 03:05PM PST

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terryzx

I really like this but I just can’t get it to work properly on Leppard. Seems like an UPDATE is due ya think?

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Where in an UPDATE?

Where in an UPDATE?

Best - Version: 1.4.8, 4/29/2008 10:06AM PST

Cowicide

Tried all the others and this one is the best. It uses very little CPU and fits perfectly up in the menubar looking just like it was meant to be there (put there by Apple itself). The preference interface is pretty clunky and there could definitely be improvments made there and in the dropdown menu gui. But, this is the only one I use anymore. Love the radar image (which the dev of weatherdock REFUSES to add) and once again, stable... doesn't use up CPU. The best.